About Barnet Together

About Barnet Together

We want to hear your ideas for improving Barnet! Whether enhancing high streets, neighbourhoods, or parks, or simply by bringing people together. Create your crowdfunding project and let’s make a difference together.
Barnet Together has a fund of £50,000 available to support crowdfunding projects in the borough. Please see MORE INFORMATION below for details on the fund and the process of getting involved.
As part of this programme we will be running a number of events and workshops - see the News tab above for more information.
This fund has been created with the support of the London Borough of Barnet, Capita and Re (Regional Enterprise) Ltd.

Barnet Together has a Fund of £50,000 available to support projects which are crowdfunding in the borough. The maximum pledge size is £5,000.

Projects we're interested in funding:

You know what would help bring your neighbourhood together, improve the local area and build community spirit. These are the things that make a community tick. We want to hear about your ideas for improving Barnet and, where possible, to help make them a reality.

Projects could be focused on physical improvements that leave a lasting legacy or they could be events or activities that last just for one day or one week, but which bring people together and help build community.

We will review funding applications for all types of projects but, in this round, are particularly keen to support activities that focus on improving Barnet's high streets and town centres, as well as those that help people to develop or improve employment skills.

Through Barnet Together you have the opportunity to create a crowdfunding campaign where friends, family, neighbours and your local community can pledge to your project. If you can demonstrate that the local community is backing your project, you may also get a pledge of up to £5,000 from the council.

This is not a regular grants programme so we have included a brief overview of the process below:

You are matched and can pitch to the Barnet Together Fund - for more information see here.

Your project is verified - your costs and permissions are checked.

You start your campaign - begin by getting lots of small pledges from the community to show that there is genuine community need and that people support your project.

When you are at around 10% of your target (and/or when you have a good number of backers from the community) the council will assess your project and the support of the community and decide whether or not to make a pledge to support your project to help you achieve your target amount.

The amount of money the council will pledge will depend on the size of your project, the impact your project will have and the community buy in.

NB the council will not be the first organisation to pledge to your project as they want to see community backing before deciding how much to pledge. Start your campaign off by getting lots of small pledges from the community to demonstrate their support.

Our Journey

The project will be run at Ashmole Academy premises on Saturdays especially for, but not limited to, children residing in Southgate ward and its neighbourhood.
The parents we consulted stated that they could not afford expensive programmes however still knew the positive effect of extended learning programmes involving both academic and enjoyable sessions on the children's attainment and self-confidence. This project will also keep the children safely away from the streets on Saturdays when parents have less control on the children’s daily activities outside of the home, which is needed very much in the area.
The project will provide the proposed extended learning programme for the students who urgently need literacy and numeracy support.
The programme will have small class sizes and the proposed teacher to student ratio is 1:6. The goal for our project is for every child to enjoy and achieve through our weekly English and Maths lessons as well as clubs such as arts and drama.